Economy Class & Beyond

Useful Expedia UK voucher of the day… 10% off

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Here's something darn useful... a 10% off voucher for Expeida UK on Hotels. The magic code is: WORLDSAVE10 The code has a £10 minimum spend, and is active from 12.01am GMT, 17/04/2012 to 11:59pm GMT, 22/04/2012. It can be used for travel between 17/04/2012 and 17/10/2012. A big note however, most of the chains are excluded (as well as some of the the Las Vegas Casinos) … [Read more...]

4000th Boeing 737NG… delivered

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Boeing has build and delivered it's 4000th 737-NG series aircraft this week to China Southern Airlines. Now, 4000 737-NG's... that's a lot of frames buzzing around the world in various different configurations (including the  -600 Series, -700, 700ER, -800, -900 and 900ER... and then there's the militarised and business variants... ) The gap between 1000th, 2000th, … [Read more...]

Virgin group attempts an 11th hour change over the BMI sale…

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Well it seems that the Virgin Group are distinctly unhappy at the International Airlines Group takeover of British Midland International, and is to appeal against the European Commission's decision to allow the purchase to go through. Virgin objects in lots of whiny language with Richard Branson said Virgin Group stating: "This deal was agreed with lightning speed and we … [Read more...]

Airplane Repaint Saturday – Horizon Air CRJ

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It's Saturday again, so it must be time to strip a plane out of one set of colours and into new colours. This time, it's a Bombardier CRJ being cleaned of its Frontier Airlines colours and into Washington State University colours for Horizon Air... More of course next week! … [Read more...]

The price of a IAG take-over: 1200 jobs to go

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1200 posts to go seems to be the first efficiency that IAG wishes to make with the take over of BMI Both Unite who represent the ground crews and cabin staff as well as BALPA who represent the pilots are trying to negate the losses. Unite say: "Unite will be fighting to maintain as many jobs as possible and ensure that where vacancies exist people can be placed into … [Read more...]

More updates from Diamond Club

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More news from BMI Diamond Club this evening: We'd like to advise you of some forthcoming changes to the bmi Diamond Club programme. From 19 April 2012, the ability for Diamond Club members to earn Status and Destinations miles and to redeem miles will cease on the Lufthansa Group airlines (Lufthansa, Swiss, Austrian Airlines, and Brussels Airlines). Any redemption … [Read more...]